Lead Software Developer Jobs in England

Lead Software Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Software Developer salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 638 657 833
Rank change year-on-year +19 +176 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 24 177 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.052% 0.21% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.22% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 19 166 90
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,300
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +16.13% -8.82%
75th Percentile £78,125 £142,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £165,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +20.00% -11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 41,555 80,517 84,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.48% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,558 60,256 53,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Lead Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Developer in England.

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Software Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +55 8 £76,000 -46.67% 7
North of England +63 5 £66,250 -5.36% 3
Midlands +60 5 £65,000 -13.33% 5
East Midlands +57 5 £65,000 - 5
South East +61 4 £70,000 -8.20% 5
North West +2 4 £72,500 +3.57% 1
South West +112 1 £50,000 -31.03%
Yorkshire +69 1 £60,000 - 2
East of England +48 1 £80,000 +33.33% 3
Lead Software Developer
UK

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Lead Software Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
1 11 (45.83%) C#
1 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
2 10 (41.67%) Degree
3 9 (37.50%) .NET
3 9 (37.50%) Agile
3 9 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 8 (33.33%) HTML
4 8 (33.33%) Azure
4 8 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (29.17%) Serverless
5 7 (29.17%) Retail
6 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (25.00%) SDLC
6 6 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 5 (20.83%) BigCommerce
7 5 (20.83%) React
7 5 (20.83%) .NET Core
7 5 (20.83%) Data Privacy
7 5 (20.83%) Line Management
7 5 (20.83%) Shopify
7 5 (20.83%) Logistics
7 5 (20.83%) Performance Management
7 5 (20.83%) Magento
7 5 (20.83%) AWS
7 5 (20.83%) RESTful
7 5 (20.83%) SaaS
7 5 (20.83%) Delphi

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Magento
1 5 (20.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) Serverless
3 5 (20.83%) AWS
3 5 (20.83%) BigCommerce
3 5 (20.83%) SaaS
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (12.50%) Power Automate
5 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 3 (12.50%) PowerApps
6 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) IaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Azure App Service
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Bluetooth
1 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Subversion
2 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Retail
4 3 (12.50%) Health Technology
4 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Publishing
4 3 (12.50%) Tech for Good
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Electronics
5 1 (4.17%) Front Office
5 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) .NET
2 8 (33.33%) HTML
3 5 (20.83%) .NET Core
3 5 (20.83%) React
3 5 (20.83%) RESTful
4 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
7 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (4.17%) CSS
7 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
7 1 (4.17%) Node.js
7 1 (4.17%) Redux
7 1 (4.17%) Vue
7 1 (4.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) EPoS
2 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Derivative
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Agile
1 9 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 8 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (25.00%) SDLC
4 5 (20.83%) Data Privacy
4 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
4 5 (20.83%) ERP
4 5 (20.83%) Line Management
4 5 (20.83%) Logistics
4 5 (20.83%) Performance Management
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 4 (16.67%) Scrum
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 3 (12.50%) Time Management
6 3 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) C#
1 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.83%) Delphi
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) Java
3 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.33%) C
4 2 (8.33%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Go
5 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (8.33%) PhD
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) IEC 62304
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Intel